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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health, Healing, Wish

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon

Truth, Travel, Lie

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost

Nothing, Saying, Keep

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

Time, Spirit, Animal

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill

True, Lies, Worst

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

Love, Time, Down

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller

Experience, Human, Joy

Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin

Great, Truth, Lie

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

Baseball, Physical, Percent

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Henry Rollins

Love, Work, Hate

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Eyes, Before

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Time, Before

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin

Wishes, Troubles, Double

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette Davis

Again, Dead, Year

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra

True, Tell, Lies

Well begun is half done.
Aristotle

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.
Bill Cosby

Health, Food, Dead

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur

Times, Crime, Five

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale

Strength, Find, Stand

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot

Important, Mean, Done

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Before, Takes

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert

Life, Before, Spent

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
Barack Obama

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

Life, Time, Through

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will Rogers

Life, Funny, Congress

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato

Women, Men, Mind

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Doubt, Wrong

Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

Baseball, Physical, Percent

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Groucho Marx

Mind, Book, Write

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